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Well, I suppose if you want to go out with him, you better ask him if he's poz first. You know, in case one things leads to another when you all are out (ya wouldn't want to have sex with someone who's poz now, would ya).

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Well, I suppose if you want to go out with him, you better ask him if he's poz first. You know, in case one things leads to another when you all are out (ya wouldn't want to have sex with someone who's poz now, would ya).

It just keeps stigma going, is all. I do find it odd that you want to hang out with us pozzies, since you said you would never have sex with someone who's poz (in a thread about kissing, no less).

And about the "rather die than fuck an 18 year old," speak for yourself.

I have my own bad experience about a person not disclosing (I got lucky, I'm fine) so when I stumbled upon that thread, it brought back memories. (no, I don't think you need to tell anyone about it if you're just kissing, I overreacted b/c I remembered my situation)

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& it got me interested/wondering, how many out there know but don't tell even when they should? (assuming they're having sex)

what percentage, do you think, tell? do most ppl tell, or do most ppl not?

& re: sarah's daughter's ex-boyfriend - he and the daughter were all set to get married last yr. lol. (that didn't last once mccain lost). b/c remember, sarah's daughter got preg?

ahaha. what's a troll? never did get internet lingo. I've never joined this forum before, if that's what you mean. I don't understand why you ppl are so offended by me. I haven't said anything rude or disrespectful. in fact, I commented on this thread addressing Sarah Palin's daughter, had nothing to do w/any of you, you guys are the ones who insist on bringing up my other comments in the other thread.

OK girlychic, so why do you want to hang out here with us pozzies, especially given your bad experience?

Yes, girlychic, why are you here? I'm not trying to be rude or disrespectful, but most new members offer a warm hello and an introduction about what motivated them to join these forums, no matter what their situation. If you're not HIV+, and no one close to you is, why did you join and start posting? Maybe I missed something in your posts so far?

I just told you. I stumbled upon that thread, and when I read it, I felt compelled to comment.

you're wrong, btw, I do know a couple ppl w/AIDS who I'm close to.

I understand your perspectives. you don't like being treated like you're different or some sort of rabid animal. I don't think my comment ever implied such, though, so I don't get what you guys mean by 'stigma.' I mean last I checked, you get HIV from having sex with a HIV+ person. have i been mis-informed? so my attitude is, "why risk it?" doesn't mean I think less of the person. It just means I don't want the virus. Does that make me crazy? what's the stigma here?

You don't even have a clue... that is the problem. You think that you understand what it is like to positive because of your "near death experience" and/or your close friends with AIDS. Let me tell you -- you don't have ANY IDEA -- YOU CAN'T HAVE ANY IDEA. My partner is negative, he can't even have an understanding of what it is like to be positive -- he can have empathy (and does), but he can't know. You THINK you are not offending, you THINK you aren't contributing to stigma -- But you are Blanche, you are...........

How? You are taking the fact that someone is positive and using that to define the entire person. Goodness knows, you can't have sex with one of them pozzies -- I might get it. Don't want to get to know them better, maybe find them attractive, because I can't have sex with one of them pozzies -- I might get it. Sweetness -- that is just as discriminatory as saying I don't want to have sex with "fill in the blank with any race, handicap, etc.....".

For the record -- you CAN have safe sex with a positive person and not get the virus. I've been doing for years with my partner -- he's still negative. There are countless others in these rooms who also have sex with negative folks and don't pass it on.

So, please, stop pretending you are 'all that and a slice of break', because you don't have a clue!

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

Two words came to my mind.. the first starts with "W", and the second "T"..

Don't think his 15 mins is up though.. he kept hinting that he has a lot of nasty "facts" against Palin. Now that he's generated some public interests he can wait a bit, until the whole "Going Rogue" craze has subsided a lot, and then sign his own tell-all book deal. He will always have a (albeit much smaller) market as long as Palin is out there..